Call to Boycott ChatGPT Over Authoritarianism Concerns
A historian advocates for a consumer boycott of ChatGPT, arguing that subscriptions to the AI service are funding authoritarianism and that a boycott could send a powerful message to Silicon Valley.
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it “screwed up” an element of the product. All it takes to accelerate that decline is 10 seconds of your time. A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to ca...
By Rutger Bregman
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